Current Applied Physics

Korean Physical Society (한국물리학회)
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A boosted voltage generator for low-voltage DRAMs

Cho, Seong-Ik;Heo, Jin-Seok;Min, Kyeong-Sik;Kim, Young-Hee

  • Published : 20031200
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Abstract

This paper proposes a new two-stage two-phase VPP charge pump configured in such a manner that the body effect and the threshold voltage loss are eliminated. The newly proposed circuit is fabricated using 0.18 ${\mu}m$ triple-well CMOS process and the measurement result shows that the VPP level tracks 3VDD when VDD is above the threshold voltage.

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